Dance in action – resistance politics in the Incarnate of Lia Rodrigues

Abstract

Art is a form of communication between artists and interlocutors that relate to each other from a network of people, things, strengths and senses, in an experience of sharing the sensible. The purpose of this research was to understand how the political sense for a work of art is built, by taking as an example a spectacle of contemporary dance, The Incarnate, by Lia Rodrigues. We start with the assumption that a contemporary dance spectacle acts as a network of materialities and socialities and the political senses are built from a series of happenings and actors, which characterize the transforming potency of the work. The methodology used in this research was done with the contributions of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), as an effort of systemizing of a way of thinking and dealing with reality that, instead of interpreting the world, aims to describe it by taking its hybridization under consideration. Some of these actions were analyzed: thematic and aesthetic choices, the acting of the choreographer / ballet dancer in relation to its own work or to the public policies of dance, the choice of spaces and places of rehearsal, research, creation and presentation of the works and resonances and repercussions with the public and the critics